The council has been discussing regulations for ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft, which use smart-phone apps to connect nonprofessional drivers with others looking for a ride.

The taxi industry says Uber and Lyft are de-facto cab companies and as such should follow the same regulations they do. The ride-share companies, known in San Antonio as transportation network companies or TNCs, disagree.

In the emial Sunday, Dallas-based Leandre Johns, an Uber general manager wrote that the proposed changes have resulted in an amended ordinance with numerous flaws that if enacted would force TNCs to abandon service in San Antonio.